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The Change Control Database

CA Endevor/DB's Change Control Database (CCDB) is an CA IDMS database that contains change management information, including a log of changes and significant activities that have occurred against data dictionary entities. As a central repository, the CCDB maintains information about users, entities, projects, Change Control Identifiers (CCIDs), workflow status, migration activity and security.

The categories of information in the Change Control Database that are used to perform Change Identification are: Change Log Entries, Entities, Users, and Dictionaries.

• Change Log Entries (CLEs) – CLEs contain information about modifications to both IDD entities and CA Endevor/DB entities within the Change Control Database itself. The Dynamic Change Monitor automatically creates a CLE each time an entity is modified. Each entry identifies the modified entity and the user who made the modification, and further includes the date and time of the modification, the modification action (ADD, MODIFY, DELETE, MIGRATE IN, MIGRATE OUT, STATUS CHANGE, SIGNIN or SIGNOUT), the updating program name and any user-provided comments.
• Entities – Identified by name, type and version, entity information is automatically captured and created by the Dynamic Change Monitor when it detects a modification to that entity. The Dynamic Change Monitor identifies each entity for which a CLE has been created.
• Users – As with entities, users are registered automatically, if desired, by the Dynamic Change Monitor which identifies each CA Endevor/DB user and the associated security classification and change information.
• Dictionaries – This category of information includes the name of the data dictionary associated with the Change Control Database, the system or site name to be used as a cross-reference in migration, and a user-defined comment. The dictionary record also contains a list of the entity types to be monitored and/or automatically signed out upon first modification, along with a default security classification.

CA Endevor/DB ensures that the Change Control Database (CCDB) reflects changes made to its associated dictionary and to the CCDB itself. No change can be made to a monitored entity type in the data dictionary or in the CCDB without a corresponding Change Log Entry (CLE) being created in the CCDB by the Dynamic Change Monitor. Changes that are attempted but not completed will not have CLEs associated with them.